Comments on: ‘America’s Got Talent’ Is The #1 Non-Sports Telecast Of the Summer In Total Viewers

By: Kermonk

Kermonk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Everything is politics in the end.

By: Jeff G

Jeff G — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:52:06 +0000

Bill, it seems that closing comments on the cable news postings does no good. Some people are determined to see politics on every single blog on the net. This one on an item about a talent contest show. Talk about apples/oranges comparisons.

By: dollhouse sucks

dollhouse sucks — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:32:36 +0000

Its only been summer for a little over a week, talk about spin

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:08:43 +0000

Bill, you still didn’t acknowledge that you’re comparing apples and oranges in your articles. Did you read my CNN analogy?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:07:19 +0000

Karen, as for comparing different time periods. I go with what I’ve got. Like Mediabistro, we post cable news ratings every single day.

For aggregate time periods, I see that data only occasionally, and work with what I get.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:05:56 +0000

Karen, I had that same press release posted at the same time or before Mediabistro.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/06/30/msnbc-beats-cnn-in-prime-for-quarter-first-time-ever/21649

And I admit to not reading it. I post *so* many press releases, I rarely read much of them. As for 18-34 numbers, nobody, including Mediabistro gets them on a regular basis for cable news.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:58:48 +0000

Bill, to give you another comparison…I liken your posts about MSNBC’s ratings drops when comparing Q2 of this year to the election-timed Q4 of last year (instead of the more accurate Q2 2008 vs Q2 2009) to a post comparing CNN’s primetime ratings this week vs. last week. CNN’s ratings will no doubt suffer a big drop compared to the mega-boosted ratings they got last week because of MJ’s death, and to not even mention something like that for the sake of comparison is disingenuous at best. I mean, I can see the headline: “CNN suffers 70% loss of viewers over a week ago.” As I said before….misleading.

By: dand

dand — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:42:28 +0000

I agree with Karen

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:39:21 +0000

Here ya go….

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/q2_cable_ratings_msnbc_tops_cnn_in_prime_120395.asp

Trends mean nothing, Bill, if they’re not put in context.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:34:08 +0000

Karen, the politics means nothing to me, they're interesting ratings trends, nothing more, nothing less. I never see adults 18-34 data for individual cable news shows, I post everything I get on cable news here, but would love to. Please put a link in the comments if you have one.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:15:26 +0000

Since there’s no other place to put this, I’ll complain here. I am ready to stop coming to this site because of the constant MSNBC/CNN posts lately about how far “down” they are compared with Q4 of last year. You don’t put any context in those posts, and therefore they’re really misleading. It’s like posting about CNN’s huge increase a couple nights in the past week without mentioning Michael Jackson’s death having a lot to do with it.

MSNBC’s ratings are actually UP compared to the same quarter last year….and if I remember correctly, there was an ELECTION in Q4 last year, lol….something a lot of people might have been interested in hearing about.

Now that Obama is president, there are a lot of unhappy right wingers out there, and FOX is preaching to their choir, making them ratings gold for them right now.

Yet interestingly? MSNBC is STILL number one in primetime among adults 18-34.

All I’m asking is for a little perspective in those posts about cable news ratings. Otherwise, it makes this site appear biased…which I’m suspecting it is. I’d love to know whether the webmasters consider themselves liberals or conservatives…and if they say “moderate,” I also want to know who they voted for in November, lol.